Today was Joe's first day in high school and my first day as a computer teacher.
Joe had a great day as a new sophomore. He loved all of his classes and is looking forward to tomorrow.
This is my 22nd year of teaching. I don't remember ever being so tired after the first day of school as I was today. My exhaustion might have something to do with the 42 -35 students rotating into my classroom every 40 minutes. Not only do I have huge class sizes, I only have 28 computers. It was kind of a "Welcome to Hell, Mrs. Caringella, these are your classes" sort of day.
I believe in starting my classes out with a lot of structure. As I firmly positioned my witch's hat on my head, I went over the rules of the computer lab. I had taken a few power point classes over the summer, so I proudly presented my rules and goals using my newly acquired skills. I can tell that I will have a few students who will try to push me, one of which found himself in time out before we had even started talking about consequences. A few others found themselves moved away from their friends pretty fast.
When I came home and tried to review a few websites, that I wanted to show the students tomorrow, I found myself falling asleep.
I hope that tomorrow will be better, maybe 50 percent of the students will be sick. If that were to happen at least the other students could work on a computer by themselves.
2 comments:
how can you teach kids about computers if the kids don't have there own? are they going to just buddy up? I'm sorry your first day wasn't very good. I hope the school year is better.
I bet the last tech teacher left that spot because she got tired of feeding 40 kids with 28 plates at the all-u-can eat buffet.
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